Whiting-table



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB S. HASKELL, OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

WRITING-TABLE.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 21,832, dated October 19, 1858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB S. IIAsKELL,

- of Salem, county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Writing-Tables, called the Revolving Vriting-Table, of which the following is a full and exact description.

Drawing Number 1 represents a side elevation; Number 2 a plan with the cover removed; Number 3 a plan with the cover and small drawers removed, and the large drawer A, pushed in to the position for fastening the small drawers, showing the circular fastening rods Y and Z. Numbers 4 and 5 show a plan and side of the fastening rods.

The same letters refer to like parts in all the drawings.

The support of the table may be of any suitable form or design, to which the body of the table is fastened by a circular bolt upon which it may freely turn. The body of the table may contain horizontal drawers of such number, size, and arrangement as convenience, fancy, or taste may suggest. In this table I have one large drawer and ten smaller ones, all moving in the lines of the respective radii which pass through their centers.

The advantage of having books and papers lying on various parts of a large table, or in some of the numerous drawers, easily moved within the reach of a person sitting at the table, would be in a degree lost by the necessary expense of locks, at the outset, and the trouble of taking up the key, unlocking and locking each drawer and replacing the key each time one or more of them is used. This difficulty is obviated by having some one of the drawers, as A, provided with suitable slides so that it may be pushed a few inches into the vacant space faces of both are iiush, and passing under the portion blocks M, N, IV, V, and U, and O, P, Q, R, and S, respectively. Upon the upper surface of these rods, at distances from the knobs corresponding with the distances of the nearest side of the smaller drawers from the said knobs, there are projections m, n, w, o, and n and o, p, g, r, and s, respectively, which enter corresponding indentations in the drawers B, C, L, K, and I, and D, E, F, Gr, and H respectively, when the said rods are moved (by means of the knobs m and 0') in a direction from the drawer A, making a full and complete fastening, and rendering all locks unnecessary. When the rods are moved in a direction toward the drawer A, the smaller drawers are unfastened so that the fastenino' and unfastening of all the drawers is effected by the sliding of the rods Y and Z, and the locking and unlocking of the drawer A in the usual manner.

What I claim and wish to secure by Letters Patent is The arrangement of the circular bolt with and for fastening of the several drawers substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name the sixth day of September eighteen hundred fifty eight.

JACOB S. HASKELL.

In presence of- JOSEPH L. LoNGEE, CHAS. W. FELT. 

